RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Zhou Jiamin defeated fellow Chinese archer Lin Yeshan in the final to clinch gold in the women's individual compound at the Rio Paralympics on Friday.

"I am very happy, but I am also very happy that Lin won silver," Zhou told the Paralympic News Service. "We are very close friends and we both medalled."

"We are finished with this Paralympics. I want to keep competing and still try my best for our country."

In the bronze medal match, South Korea's Kim Mi-Soon defeated Iran's Abbaspour Somayeh.